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Please don't misinterpret this. I'm not dissing the First Lady. Not at all. In fact--quite the opposite.

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quote Originally posted by rinselberg: Please don't misinterpret this. I'm not dissing the First Lady. Not at all. In fact--quite the opposite.

OK, please enlighten me as to how we're suppose to interpret this posting...............

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quote Originally posted by blackrams: OK, please enlighten me as to how we're suppose to interpret this posting...............

It's a reaction that I have to the first message, from TheDigitalAlchemist.


The Jack of Spades looks upon the world, but he has only one eye to see with. He's a "One-Eyed Jack."

I'm not expecting a lot from this thread. But I will express a thought that's been on my mind for quite some time now. About the results of the elections for President and Vice President. I think it ties into the way that this Topic was set up.

Was there a "steal"..? I don't believe any of that for even a "New York" minute.

This is the system of elections that we have. Federalized, not nationalized. 50 state elections, each single state outcome produced by the particular way that state goes about it.

President Trump has voiced many complaints about the election results and the way that the elections were carried out. Just as he did when he was elected President in 2016.

Was it radical for various states to change the ways that their November elections were conducted between 2016 and 2020, given all of the various issues that were involved? Covid-19. Accessibility of polling stations for in person voting. Preferences for early voting and vote-by-mail options. It's not like any of these aspects of the situation were completely new things--except for Covid-19.

If that was radical, how radical would it have been for Congress to have intervened and overridden the electoral college votes from specific states to turn "Biden votes" into "Trump votes"..?

Team Trump and the Trump entourage filed lawsuit after lawsuit. They were filed in courts that were presided over, at the federal level, by judges that were nominated by President Obama. And judges that were nominated by President George W Bush. And some judges that were nominated by President Trump. At the state level--Pennsylvania for example--there were lawsuits put before judges in a state where Republicans outnumbered Democrats in the Pennsylvania state legislature.

It all came to nothing. It got no traction. It was as futile as trying to drive on a steeply graded, snow-covered road with All Season tires and no tire chains.

I think it could be improved if the elections-governing officials at the state level across the 50 different states could cooperate with the framework of an "Elections Best Practices" commission and consider more commonality from state to state, in the ways that elections are conducted. Not looking for commonality, in and of itself, but maybe the various states look at how Florida implemented the mail-in voting options--Trump liked that one--and are able to decide that would be better than what they did.

If Mitch McConnell were going to be the Majority Leader in the Senate--of course, that's been obviated by the runoff elections in Georgia, but not made completely irrelevant by any means, with the Senate split at 50-50--nevertheless, I think there are circumstances that could be conducive to a kind of Grand Bargain. A small Grand Bargain. I could see it. Mitch, whispering "sweet nothings' in Kamala's ear, hey, you know I could be less of a Grim Reaper if you could accommodate me on some election reforms. We can't do it all at the federal level, but you and Joe have friends in various states.

That's as far as my thoughts take me. Or as far as I want to go with them, at this moment.

"Be Best"

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